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 TJP-TO-Di^TE 
 PKIMER. 
 
 LESSON I. 
 
 Cat 
 
 Is this a Gat? 
 
 O, see tlie Kat ! 
 
 Men 
 
 Why do Men beg ? 
 
 Hog 
 
 See the fat Hog. 
 
 Hat 
 
 Get on to the Hat. Fill it with Kent. 
 
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 The Cat will go for the Rat ! 
 
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 LESSON 11. 
 
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 TfL Here is a man who Begs. Why does 
 lie not Work ? He would, but he Can not get a 
 Job. Can he not Go on the Land? No; for a 
 
 Fat Man Owns it, and this is the 
 Hat he holds out for Rent. It is a great 
 Scheme. See the Rat. '~t^lj| It does no Work, 
 but just Feeds on our Goods and is a Pest we 
 
 would fain be Rid of. See the Cat. 
 
 Can the Cat run ? You bet. She will Kill the 
 
 Rat. Then we will take the ||^^v out of the 
 
 the Fat Man's i^ame. 
 
LESSON III. 
 
 Pike 
 
 Owns 
 
 Stream 
 
 Or 
 
 Get 
 
 Out 
 
 Perch 
 
 Must 
 
 Pay 
 
 What is it ? It is a Fish. It has a Name. 
 The Name is Pike. It is a big Fish and can 
 Bite. See its Teeth. Can a Fish live on the 
 Land ? No, it will die on Land. But see, the 
 small Fish is on the Land. Will the small 
 Fish die? Yes, it will. Why does it go on 
 Land, then ? The Pike drove it to the Land. 
 The small Fish is a Perch. Is not the Pike a 
 bad Fish to do so ill a deed ? It is, but you 
 must not say so. Do you not see that the 
 Pike owns the Stream, and so has a right to 
 get Rent for the use of the Stream from the 
 Perch ? But the Perch can not pay, and so has 
 to get out. The Pike means no ill, but Biz is 
 Biz. But should it be the Law that a Pike 
 may own a Stream? Ah, now you have hit 
 it. No, it should not. Such a law is bad — 
 for Perch. 
 
LESSON IV. 
 
 Crow 
 Owns 
 Air 
 
 Jay 
 
 Must 
 
 Work 
 
 Keep 
 Crow 
 Fat 
 
 See the Bird! It is a Ijiack Bird, m it 
 not? They call it a Crow. It is a fat Crow, 
 but it does not Work. How, then, does it keep 
 so Fat ? Do you not see the Small Bird ? Yes, 
 I see it. Well, that is a Jay. It has to Work 
 and find Grub for the Crow, so the Crow may 
 sit on the tree all day and have a Good Time. 
 But is not the Jay a Jay in truth to do so? 
 So you may think, but the poor Jay does not 
 do this for Fun. Oh, no! You see, the Crow 
 owns the Air, and will not let the Jay use it 
 but on these Terms : the Jay must pay Rent or 
 he can not fly nor sit on a Rock, so you see 
 the Fix he is in. Poor Jay ! Yes, he is Poor, 
 but the Crow is Fat. What a soft Snap the 
 Crow has, to be sure! It is a Fine Thing to 
 own the Air, is it not? 
 
LESSON V. 
 
 Rose Will ^ Imp 
 
 In Not Owns 
 
 Pot Live Light 
 
 What is This? Do you not See what it is? 
 No, it is so Dark I can not See what it is. Well, 
 I will tell you. It is a Kose in a Pot. But I 
 do not see the Rose nor the Pot ; it is all Black 
 and Dark. Quite so, my Dear, but do you know 
 why it is Dark? No, I do not; but a Rose 
 can not live in the Dark, can it? No, it can 
 not. Thfit is just where the Trick comes in. 
 You see, there is an Imp who Owns the Light, 
 and he says the Rose must pay him for its use 
 or he will shut it off and let the Rose die. 
 Well, the Rose can not Pay, and so the Light 
 is shut off. That is how it is that you do not 
 see the Rose when you look. Poor Rose ! Bad 
 Imp ! No, do not say Bad, he Owns the Light, 
 you know, and that makes it quite the Right 
 thing. I hope you see the Point. 
 
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LESSON VI. 
 
 Poor Man Holds 
 
 Slave Owns The 
 
 Bows Him Whip 
 
 See the poor Slave and the Man with the 
 Wliip. Will he Hit the Slave? It would be 
 Just like him to do so. Is he not a bad Man 
 to beat the poor Slave ? Oh, no ; don't you see 
 he Owns the Slave and may do with him as 
 he will ? The Law says a Man may Own a 
 Slave, and that ends it. But it is a bad law for 
 the Slave, is it not? Yes. It is not nice to 
 be a Slave. You must Work, and you get no 
 Wage. But the Slave gets his Keep, does he 
 not? Yes, the Man that owns him must give 
 him Food and take care of him. So it is not 
 such a bad Thing, when you come to see it > 
 like that. I know lots of Men that would be 
 glad to Work for their Keep right here in 
 this Town, where Me don't have Slaves at all. 
 They would not be so likely to Starve as they 
 are now, though they are Free. 
 
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LESSON VII. 
 
 This 
 
 Not 
 
 Slave 
 
 Oh 
 
 Dear 
 
 No 
 
 Man 
 
 Owns 
 
 Land 
 
 Is this a Slave, too? No, we do not call 
 this a Slave. The Law has now set the Slave 
 free. But does not the Man with the Plug 
 Hat own the Man with the Bare Head? No, 
 he does not Own him. All men are Born Free 
 in this good Land, you know. Then why does 
 the small Man kneel down to the big Man, 
 and say he will Work for him for a Wage that 
 will just get him a Bite to eat and a Roof for 
 his Head? Is not that the Talk of a Slave? 
 It is Like it, my dear, but he is a Free Man, 
 as I have told you. The big Man does not 
 own Him, but he Owns the Land, and as the 
 Man can not live if he does not Work, and as 
 he can not work if he has not the Use of the 
 Land, he is just like the Fish out of the 
 Stream, or the Jay who must use the Air, or 
 the Rose that needs the Light. See? 
 
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LESSON VIII. 
 
 Man Fruits Life 
 
 Lost Of ^ And 
 
 Bigrht Toil r Land 
 
 How came M^n to make such a bad Plan 
 as we now have? I will tell you. At first 
 the Land of the World was Free to All, and 
 each Man had the Right to the Fruit of his 
 Toil. When there was a War, the Side that 
 came off Best brought home great Crowds of 
 their Foes. These, if not put to Death, were 
 kept as Slaves, as a kind boon. But the Men 
 who held the Slaves had to Feed them, and 
 they soon saw it was best to Own the Land, 
 and so they too] the Land and the Slave was 
 made a Serf. Then, as time went on, the Wage 
 plan came to be, and the Serf gave Way to 
 the Wage Slave. As Bond Slave, Serf, or Wage 
 Slave, the Fruits of the Man's toil went to him 
 who was the Boss. You see, the Rights Man 
 lost in the War are still lost. The Boss still 
 Owns the Land, and we have the Wage Slave 
 with us this day. 
 
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 God 
 
 Made 
 
 Men 
 
 FEB IS lw5 
 LESSON IX. 
 
 Each 
 Owns 
 Self 
 
 May 
 Work 
 
 Who Owns the Man ? God, who made him, 
 Owns him, but he gives Man a Free Will. 
 Man has a Right to Life, and to be Free, and 
 to seek Joy in this world. So he has a Right 
 to that which he needs that he may Live. He 
 must have Air or he will die; he must have 
 the Light of the Sun or he can not live, and 
 he must have Food and Clothes, and a Roof for 
 his head. So he must have Right to use Land 
 or he can have none of these Things. Nor can 
 he be Free if he must Pay- for the use of the 
 things God has made by which he must Live; 
 and he can not find Joy in this life if he is 
 not Free, or if he must keep his Nose to the 
 Wheel of Toil from the day he comes in to the 
 World to the day he dies. Man does not live 
 just for Bread; he Needs a chance to Train his 
 Mind as God meant he should. 
 
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LESSON X. 
 
 -: Men And Right 
 
 Are Also To 
 
 Free E-qual Chance 
 
 Are all Men of the same Size? No, some 
 are Tall, some are Short ; some Fat, some Slim. 
 Can they all be made of the same Size? By 
 no Means. Are they all the same in Mind? 
 No; some are Smart and some Dull, nor can 
 they be made the same in mind, try how you 
 will. Then how is it you say all Men are born 
 Free and E-qual? Is it not Bosh to talk in 
 such a way ? No, my Child, it is not Bosh, if 
 you have due care as to what you Mean by the 
 Words. We mean by Free that Men are born 
 with a Kight to Life, and by E-qual that they 
 are born with a Right to an E-qual Chance to 
 use those Things that they need to keep Life 
 in them. These Things are all in the word 
 Land. The One- tax plan will make a way for 
 Man to get the use of the Land, with no call 
 to pay a Land Lord, and so it will make Men 
 Free and E-qual in the right Sense. 
 
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LESSON XL 
 
 Work 
 
 Makes 
 
 Wealth 
 
 Man 
 Gets 
 Fat 
 
 Though 
 
 Don't 
 
 Toil 
 
 But look at these Two ! Are they not both 
 Men ? They are. Yet one is Fat and Rich, and 
 one is Lean and Poor! How comes this? It 
 must be that the Fat one has a will to Work, 
 and so by bis Toil on the Land gets all the 
 Good Things he needs, while the Lean one will 
 not Work and so must needs Starve and go in 
 Rags. So it would seem, my Child ; but things 
 are not as they seem. The Fat Man here does 
 not Work at all, and the Thin Man would fain 
 Work for his Food, but can not get Work to do. 
 Is this not Queer ? Yes, it is Queer. But it 
 will be Plain when I tell you that the Fat 
 Man owns the Land, and lives on the Land 
 Rent. Can a Man own Land as he may own 
 a Thing which the hand of Man may make? 
 Yes, and that is the Law we must Mend if we 
 would Cure the Deep Ills we see. 
 
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LESSON XII. 
 
 Man 
 
 Owns 
 
 Hat 
 
 Can 
 
 Make 
 
 Same 
 
 CanH 
 Make 
 Land 
 
 What is this ? It is a Hat. Is it a plug 
 Hat ? No, it is just a Hat. Feel it, my Child, 
 for it may be Felt. Does the Man own the 
 Hat? Yes, it is his. But how do you know 
 it is his? Why may a man own a Hat if he 
 may not own Land? Well, you see, Man may 
 make a Hat, or he may buy one from the Man 
 who has made it, and pay him for it. So when 
 he has paid for it or made it, it is his Own. 
 He may then Wear it, or Hide it, or Burn it, 
 or Lend it, or Rent it out. If he puts it out 
 of Use he does no harm to Men, for a new 
 Hat can be made in its place. But a Man can 
 not Make a piece of Land, nor can he Buy it 
 from God who made it, and if he puts it out 
 of Use he does Harm to Men, and so he may 
 not own Land in the same way that he owns 
 a Hat. 
 
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 LESSON XIII. 
 
 May 
 Own 
 Sheep 
 
 They 
 
 Are 
 
 Bred 
 
 Not 
 
 Like 
 
 Land 
 
 See the Sheep. It is a nice Fat Sheep and 
 has long Wool. Does a Man own the Sheep ? 
 Yes, the Man that owns the Hat owns the 
 Sheep as well. But how can he own a Sheep ? 
 He may own a Hat, for he can make it. But 
 he may not own Land, which he can not Make, 
 you say. Quite right, my Child. Then how 
 can he own a Sheep ? — for he can no more 
 make Sheep than Land. Yes, in a way he can 
 make Sheep. Sheep are Bred by Man. He 
 can so deal with them as to have more Sheep 
 than now. He can, if he see fit, Wipe out all 
 Sheep, so there would be not One left, but he 
 can not make the Land more or less than God 
 made it. And so the Sheep is not like Land, 
 but it is a Thing which Man may own, as is 
 the Ox, the Horse, the Pig, and all the Beasts 
 we see in the World. 
 
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 World 
 
 Goods 
 
 Grows 
 
 Price 
 
 Full 
 
 Falls 
 
 LESSON XIV. 
 
 Land 
 
 Gets 
 
 High 
 
 Here you see a Sheep and a Hat on one 
 Side, and a Lot of Land next to them. The 
 Worth of such things as Sheep or Hats is a 
 Worth of what we call Trade, and is High or 
 Low as it Costs more or less to make or breed 
 such things. As Man finds out new Ways to 
 save Toil, or as the Crowd grows, such things 
 grow more Cheap, for they may be made or 
 bred with more ease, and there is more Sale 
 for them. But the Worth of Land is a Worth 
 not of Trade but of " Take," and is high or low 
 as more or less Land may be thus got and 
 held. And so it comes that the Worth of 
 Land goes up just as the Crowd grows big, for 
 there is Just so much Land in the World and 
 no more. So a tax on Goods, as it must be 
 paid by those who use the Goods, adds to the 
 Price, but a tax on Land tends to make Land 
 cheap. 
 
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LESSON XV. 
 
 Man 
 May 
 
 Earth 
 
 But 
 
 Must 
 
 Pay 
 
 Ijand 
 Rent 
 
 There is but One way by which a Man 
 may be Just to the Race of Men and yet own 
 a bit of the Earth or the Whole of it. What 
 is that? It is that he shall give a Fair Price 
 to the Whole Race, for whom God made it. 
 But what is a Fair Price? Not a Lump sum 
 paid to any One Man, for that does the Rest 
 no good. Not a Lump sum paid to the State, 
 for though that is Fair to all who now Live, it 
 does no good to the Race soon to be born in 
 the World, and whose Rights are as good as our 
 own. What, then, is a fair Price ? The Ground 
 Rent, to be paid each Year in to the State Till. 
 That is Just, both to these who now Live, and 
 those yet to be Born ; and it is Just, too, to the 
 Man who wants to own the Land. So, you see, 
 the One-tax plan would be Just all round. 
 
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fOP*. JAut 
 
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 LESSON XYI. 
 
 Land By Out 
 
 Rent ' God's Of 
 
 Springs Law Ground 
 
 Was Man made to live a Lone life ? No; 
 God meant Men to live in the Town and each 
 to love and help the Eest. But when Men come 
 to live in a Crowd they need a Purse or Till, 
 out of which to Pay for the Things they need 
 for the use of All, such as Lights, Streets, Cops, 
 Schools, and so on. Did God think of this when 
 He made Man ? Yes, my Child. So He made a 
 great Law. It Works in this way : When Men 
 come in a Crowd — such as a Town — the Land, 
 which had no worth ere they came, gets to be 
 worth so much per Foot. Why? It is worth 
 80 much for the Chance to do biz there. If the 
 Crowd goes off, this Worth goes with them. 
 It is what we call Ground Rent. Th^s Fund 
 God meant for the Town Till. 
 
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LESSON XVII. 
 
 Wage 
 For . 
 Work 
 
 Gold 
 
 For 
 
 Bent 
 
 No 
 
 More 
 
 Sweat 
 
 Here is a Man at work on the Land. See 
 the beads of Sweat on his Brow. He earns 
 his Bread, and it is Sweet to hina. It is a 
 fair Wage for his Work. This is the Law as 
 God has made it : No Toil, no Bread ; much Toil, 
 much Bread. But see the Man next to him. 
 He has a big Bag and it is full of Gold, but he 
 does not Work at all. And, bless my Heart, 
 Child, look ! it is the Same Man ! He has quit 
 Work. What does this Mean ? How does he get 
 more Gold now, though he does no Work, than 
 he got when he did hard Toil ? Why, you see, 
 he got a Deed of the Land he used to work on, 
 and a Town is now built on that Land, so now 
 he lives on the Gold which the Folks of that 
 Town have to put in his Bag each Year in the 
 form of Land Rent. For what ? For the Right 
 to Live, which he is so Kind as to give them. 
 

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 LESSON XVIIL 
 
 One 
 Tax 
 Plan 
 
 Now 
 
 In 
 
 Use 
 
 For 
 
 House 
 
 Rent 
 
 See the big House. Does the Man own 
 it? Yes. Does he want to make the Most 
 out of it he can with the least Loss? That is 
 just it, my Child. Then what is his Plan ? It is 
 a Plan of Good Sense and marks a Wise Man. 
 It is what I may call the One-tax Plan. What 
 do you Mean? He makes those who Use the 
 House pay for it just by the Size and Kind of 
 Room they rent, so much per Year. Now, he 
 might get his Gain out of it in more Ways. 
 He might make Folks pay who go in or out; 
 he might Lease the Hoist to a Man, and let 
 him charge Fare up and down; he might put 
 a Tax on the Gas used in each room, and he 
 might Charge for all Goods brought in or sent 
 out, and so much per cent, on the Trade done 
 by each Man in the place. But, you see, his 
 One-tax Plan is the best. 
 
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LESSON XIX. 
 
 Why 
 
 Not 
 
 State 
 
 Have 
 
 This 
 Plan 
 
 For 
 The 
 i.?mcl 
 
 What are these Men ? They wear Bands on 
 their Hats. Yes. I will tell you Why. Their 
 work is to rake in the Fund which the State 
 takes in the form of Tax. Does the Plan of 
 the State show the Good Sense of that of the 
 Man who owns the big House? No, the State 
 does not just put a Tax on each Man's Land for 
 what it may be Worth, as he does with each 
 Man's space in the House. It does what that 
 wise Man might try to do, as I have said, if 
 he were not Wise. It lets slick Chaps own and 
 run its Hoists (rail roads) for their own Gain; 
 it tries to Tax the Trade each Man does in his 
 own Store, or what he earns by Toil; it puts 
 a Tax on what comes in at the Ports, and on 
 some Things that go out. It is a Plan that 
 Costs Much and is not Just or Fair. 
 
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LESSON XX. 
 
 Milk 
 
 Keeps 
 
 Calf 
 
 Bent 
 
 For 
 
 State 
 
 Just 
 
 Same 
 
 Law 
 
 * Oh, see the Cow, and the nice wee Calf 
 Does the Calf call the Cow ma ? Yes, and the 
 Cow loves the Calf. The Calf lives on Milk, 
 which it draws from the Cow. In this we see 
 the greaft Law of God once more. When a 
 Calf is born it needs Milk for Food that it may- 
 Live and Thrive, and so in each case the Cow 
 has Milk for it. If the Milk were kept from 
 the Calf, and it were fed on Hay and Roots, it 
 would be like to Starve, for Milk is its right 
 Food. Now, just as the Cow brings forth Milk 
 for the use of the Calf, so does the Land bring 
 forth a Fund for the use of the State. The 
 Milk for the State we call Ground Rent. It 
 is a Fund from which the State could draw all 
 it Needs to serve all its Just Ends, just as the 
 Calf will thrive on the Milk of the Cow. 
 
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LESSON XXI. 
 
 Goat 
 Owns 
 Cow 
 
 Takes 
 
 The 
 
 Milk 
 
 Like 
 Land 
 Lords 
 
 But see ! What is this ? It is a Goat ! Is 
 it a Calf? No, it is a Goat. But why is it 
 Here, and what does it Mean to do ? Just 
 what you See it do now. The Calf is Tied, 
 you see, and the Goat sucks the Cow's Milk. 
 Goats are fond of Milk, and this Goat has 
 quite a Snap. Is this Right? Well — yes, I 
 Guess it is, for the Goat " Owns" the Cow, and 
 it is a Queer Thing if it can not take the Milk. 
 But what of the Calf? Oh, the Goat "Bought" 
 the Cow, you know, by Leave of the Calf— - 
 which is a Beast of Small Sense — and now, while 
 the Goat takes the Milk for its own Use, the 
 Calf has to be Fed on Things that do not Suit 
 it as well as the Milk would do. Just in this 
 way the State (which is a Calf) lets Land 
 Lords own the Land and Feed on the Rent, 
 while it has to do the Best it can to keep Life 
 in it by a Tax on Goods, and Toil, and so foHh. 
 
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LESSON XXII. 
 
 Toil 
 
 Must 
 
 Tlius 
 
 Digs 
 
 Have 
 
 Makes 
 
 Pick 
 
 Land 
 
 Wealth 
 
 What m this ? It is a Man at Work with 
 a Pick. Does he Dig? Yes, he Digs in the 
 Land. What is his Name? We call him Toil. 
 Will he Dig all Day? No, he will Dig but 
 part of the Day, and then he will Eest. He 
 can make as Much in that Time as he Needs for 
 his Keep, and then he will Read so as to Feed 
 his Mind, and Play that he may have Health. 
 You say he can "Make as Much as he Needs." 
 What is it he Makes? > We call it Wealth. 
 This Word just Means all that is got by Toil. 
 But could Toil get any Wealth if he were 
 with his Pick out on the Sea or up in the 
 Air? No, he must be on the Land. Toil and 
 Land are the two Things by which all Wealth 
 is Got, and there is no other Way to get 
 Wealth in all the World. There is not a Thing 
 that Man has, or that he can have, but what 
 comes from Land and Toil. 
 
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LESSON XXIII. 
 
 Man 
 
 Thus 
 
 His 
 
 Brings 
 
 Helps 
 
 Good 
 
 Oxen 
 
 Toil 
 
 Friend 
 
 But what do you Call this? It is a Plow 
 and Oxen. Does the Man own the Plow and 
 Oxen? Yes. What does he Mean to do with 
 them? He is on his Way to where Toil is at 
 work. He means to give Toil the Use of the 
 Plow and Oxen in his work on the Land. Is 
 he not a good, kind Man? He is, and he is a 
 firm Friend of Toil. What is the good Man's 
 name? You may read it on his Ox. By the 
 'ise of the Plow in place of the Pick, you see, 
 he will aid Toil to do much more, and so get 
 much more of a Crop, and this he will, of course. 
 Share with his good Friend, as is but Just, since 
 by the Help he gave so much more Work was 
 done in the same Time. Is it Eight that he 
 should have this Share? I think it is, my Child. 
 I know some try to make out that he is the Foe 
 of Toil, but it is not like a Foe to Help one, 
 is it? He and Toil are Friends. 
 
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LESSON XXIV. 
 
 Toil 
 
 Now 
 
 Worm 
 
 And 
 
 Quite 
 
 Eats 
 
 Friend 
 
 Mad 
 
 Fruit 
 
 Who are these two Men, and why do they 
 Dance and Tear as if they were Mad? They 
 are Toil and his Friend. They have done the 
 Work, and now they are mad at the Worm 
 which eats the Fruit. You see the Fruit is 
 Wealth — that is, what was got by the Joint 
 Work of the Two on the Land. The Fruit is 
 to be cut in two Parts, one for Toil, which we 
 call his Wage, and one for his Friend, which 
 we call In-ter-est. Is it Strange that they are 
 Mad at the Worm, which means to Eat up most 
 of the Fruit? Did the Worm help them to 
 get this Fruit of Work? No; but the Worm 
 owns the Land out of which they have to get 
 all the Wealth that can be got, and so it Claims 
 its share in the form of Rent. But the Worm 
 does no Work. It's Plan is to let them Work, 
 and then take Toll. 
 
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LESSON XXV. 
 
 Coats 
 
 For 
 
 Boots 
 
 Fair 
 
 Square 
 
 Trade 
 
 Both 
 
 Make 
 
 Gain 
 
 See the Man with the Coat. Did he make 
 the Coat? Yes, he did. It is his Forte to 
 make Coats. And see the Man with the Boots. 
 He made the Boots, and he gives all his Time 
 to that Line of work. What do the Men mean 
 to do now? They have come to Trade. The 
 Coat Man wants Boots, and the Boot Man 
 wants a Coat, so when they Trade their Goods 
 both will Gain by it. They give Goods for 
 Goods or Work for Work. And then they ^o 
 and make like Trade with the Men who make 
 Bread, and Hats, and Shirts, and Stoves, and all 
 things else that they Need. But they do not 
 Have to do it just in this Way. They sell their 
 Boots and Coats for Coin of the State, and 
 with this Coin they buy what they Need. But, 
 of course, the Coin stands for Work that has 
 been done. 
 
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 LESSON XXVI. 
 
 Land Coats But 
 
 Lord And Gives 
 
 Gets Boots Nought 
 
 Here we have the same two Men once more. 
 And a Fat Man is with them. Each gives him 
 Goods. One gives him a Coat, which he has 
 Made, and one gives him a Pair of Boots. This 
 is a fair Trade, too, is it Not? Does the Fat 
 man give Goods ? No, I do not see that he Does. 
 He holds no goods in his Hands. He has them 
 spread as if to Get and not to Give. Then why 
 do the Men give him their Goods? Ah! he 
 gives them Coin, that is it? No, he does Not. 
 He has not Paid them a Cent for these Things, 
 Then I give it up. It is quite plain, my Child. 
 He owns the Land, and he just gives them 
 Leave to make Coats and Boots on it. That 
 is all he gives. Is he not Good? He owns 
 a Lot in the Town on which they have their 
 Shops. 
 
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LESSON XXVIL 
 
 Man Folks Have 
 
 O^iis Want To 
 
 Spring Drink Pay 
 
 But if that Fat Man owns the Land, should 
 we not Praise him that he lets the Men who 
 make Coats and Shoes live on it, so they may 
 Work, and should they not be Glad to Pay him 
 for its Use ? Yes, they should, If he does "Own" 
 it. But that is the Point. The Law lets him 
 Own it, but did God mean Land to be so dealt 
 with? See the Cut up at the top of this Page. 
 Is it not the Same sort of Thing ? Here is a 
 Man who owns a Pool in the wide, hot Plain, 
 and he has a barb wire Fence round it. The 
 poor Folks are Dry and Faint with their Long 
 March, and come to the Pool to Drink. They 
 must Drink o Die. But he will not let them 
 Drink if they do not give him a great Share 
 of the Goods they have brought so far, or a lot 
 of Gold. Is he not just like the man who 
 owns Land so as to live on Kent ? 
 
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LESSON XXVIII. 
 
 Want 
 
 The 
 
 Earth 
 
 You 
 May 
 Own 
 
 ^ 
 
 By 
 Law 
 
 Here is the World. It is a big Ball, is it 
 not ? Yes, it is Big. Do you Want the Earth ? 
 Yes, but may I Have it? So far as the Law 
 goes. Yes, you May. The Law, you know, lets 
 you " Own " a Lot. If you may thus own One 
 Lot, you may own Two, and if Two then Ten, 
 and the Law Draws no Line to say where the 
 Thing must End. You may Own the whole 
 Globe, so far as the Law goes. And Oh, what 
 a heap of Rent you could get if you did own 
 it! All Men would have to Pay you or Get 
 Off your Land. They would have no Right to 
 Live but by your Will, though God gave them 
 the Right to Life. We want to Mend this Law, 
 so that no Man shall Own Land who does not 
 Pay each Year its Fair Worth as bare Land 
 to the Till of the State. 
 
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God 
 
 Man 
 
 Made 
 
 Must 
 
 Land 
 
 Use 
 
 LESSON XXIX. 
 
 Not 
 For 
 Spec. 
 
 If a Man may not Own Land, how is he 
 to Live, since all he Needs for his Life is got 
 out of Land? A Man does not Need to Own 
 Land; it will Serve all his Ends quite well if 
 he may have the safe Use of Land, and be left 
 in Peace with no Fear that any shall come to 
 Turn him Off. To Own Land and to Use Land 
 are by no means the same Tiling. Do you see 
 the Dog in the Cut ? Well, he Owns the Hay, 
 to make Gain out of it. And the Ox wants 
 to Use the Hay. Now, just as Hay was Meant 
 to be Used by Oxen and not to be Held by 
 Dogs, so Land was made to be Used by Men 
 and not Held by Drones. Now, if the Rent of 
 the Land is put in the State Till, then no one 
 would Hold Land who did not mean to Use it. 
 There would be no Spec, in it as there is now„ 
 
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 ^<c 
 
 LESSON XXX. 
 
 Not 
 
 But 
 
 Would 
 
 The 
 
 It8 
 
 We 
 
 Land 
 
 Worth 
 
 Tax 
 
 Do you see this Man? He does not Look 
 as if he were Rich, does he ? And you can see 
 that he Works hard. Yet this Man owns a big 
 piece of Land. He owns a Farm ; a great, wide 
 Farm. And now \qoV at the Man with the 
 Plug Hat. You can see he is a Rich Man by 
 his Style, and his Hands f-re Soft and White. 
 He does no Work to Speak of. Yet the Land 
 he owns is but a Small Lot. Now, does it Look 
 as though to own Land was the sure Way to 
 get Rich ? Ah, I see your Point. It is not the 
 Land that Tells the Tale, but the Worth of the 
 Land — its Worth in Rent each Year. The Town 
 Lot which the Rich Man owns is Small, but its 
 Rent each year is Ten Times that of the Big 
 Farm. It is the Rent that we w^ould Tax, not 
 the Space, and this Town Man would pay Ten 
 Times more than the Farm Man, 
 
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 LE8SON XXXI. 
 
 How Of Help 
 
 Would One Farm 
 
 Plan Tax Man 
 
 Here is the Man who Works that Farm. 
 He comes to us and sayn, "Yes, I am Poor; 1 
 can but make Ends meet these Days if my 
 Health is good and my Crops fair. Now, how 
 would this One-tax plan of a Tax on Land 
 Rent help me?" We will Tell him. It would 
 help You this way : the Tax on your Farm 
 would not be High, for the Rent of your Land 
 each Year is not a great Sum. You pay that 
 out of what you Earn, and then you keep 
 the Rest. The Tax on your Barn, House, and 
 so on, is Gone. Store goods would be Low, 
 for there would be Free Trade, and you could 
 Sell your Grain for at least as Good a Price 
 as you now get. The Tax wt'ight would fall 
 on the Town Lots which are of High Worth, 
 where it Ought to fall. You would Gain in 
 this, that you would be Free of much Tax 
 weight you now Bear. 
 
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LESSON XXXII. 
 
 Help 
 
 And 
 
 Squelch 
 
 Toil 
 
 His 
 
 Land 
 
 Much 
 
 Friend 
 
 Lord 
 
 Here we have Three Men, and one of them 
 is Hurt. He is, in fact, Laid out Flat, for a 
 big Stone is on him. Yes, it fell on Him and 
 he is No More. You see his Name on his 
 Hat. That is how the One Tax would Work. It 
 would Squelch the Man who just Lives on Land 
 Rent. But it would not Hurt the two Men 
 who now Dance with Glee, as you see. Their 
 Names are on them, too. They Hold land but 
 to Use it, and when they Pay the State for its 
 Use, they Keep all they Earn; no part of it 
 has to go for a Tax of any Sort. What they 
 make is their Own ; but the Land is the 
 State's, and it is Right they should Pay for 
 its Use. Do not cry for the Man that is 
 Down. The Man who Just Lives on Rent is 
 of no more use to the World than the Flea or 
 Bed Bug. 
 
 36 
 
"Hunt 
 
 LESSON XXXIII. 
 
 Three 
 
 This 
 
 Would 
 
 In 
 
 Tax 
 
 Help 
 
 One 
 
 Plan 
 
 Two 
 
 But what Man is this ? This is the Plain 
 Man we meet Day by Day, like You or Me. 
 He Works with Head or Hand, and so he is a 
 La-bor-er ; he has put Cash in some Line of 
 Trade, and so we Call him a Cap-i-tal-ist ; and 
 he Holds Land as well, and thus is a Land 
 Lord. Thus you see he is a Three-in-one Man. 
 Most of us in this Day are such, and so it is 
 Well to Know that the One Tax on Land 
 Rent would Help and Aid us in Two of our 
 Three Parts, much more than it would Hurt 
 us in the Third. It would be a great Good 
 to All who Work with theii* Hands, Heads, 
 or Means, for it would let them Keep all they 
 Earn, which they may Not do as the Law now 
 is, but it would be Sure Death to the Man 
 who does No Work, but just Lives on the Toil 
 of those who do. 
 
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LESSON XXXIV. 
 
 Cop 
 
 Steals 
 
 Tax 
 
 With 
 
 For 
 
 On 
 
 Club 
 
 State 
 
 Goods 
 
 See the Cop with the Club ! What is he at ? 
 He is at his right Work. What! Is it, then, 
 his Work to Rob this Man of the Bread he 
 has made? A Part of it — Yes. The Man who 
 makes Bread has to give up some Loaves each 
 year to the State in the shape of Tax, just as 
 the Man who makes Shoes, and he who makes 
 Coats, and so on, have each got to Give Up 
 some of the Things they have Made. The Cop 
 stands for the Law that takes these Goods. 
 But why does the Cop have to do so? For 
 this cause: As you see in the Cut, the Land 
 Lord has Gone Off with the Fund from Land 
 Rent which would have been all the State 
 needs; and now the Law must send the Cop 
 to Rob in this Way to make up for the Loss 
 of the Fund. Is it not a Queer way to do? 
 
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Li: SON XXXV. 
 
 Load 
 
 Make 
 
 Land 
 
 Poor 
 
 Up 
 
 Lord 
 
 Toll 
 
 Fund 
 
 Takes 
 
 Who is this Man with the great Load on 
 his Back? That is Toil. This means that the 
 Plan of the State now is to put the Tax Load 
 on those who Work, and the Things they make 
 by their Work. Some of this Tax is Straight, 
 and you See and Know how much it is; and 
 Some of it is Put On in a Shnpe that you can 
 not well See and Count. But why does the 
 State pile the Tax on Toil when there is a 
 Fund which Springs out of the Land ? See, it 
 goes in to the Fat Man's Hat, though he does 
 not Work. Is not this what God meant as a 
 Fund to help the State? It is, but Man is so 
 Wise, he thinks he Knows more than God, so he 
 lets that Fund go to the Man who Owns the 
 Earth, and in its Stead he Piles the Tax on to 
 poor Toil. But the State is a Firm Friend 
 of Toil, is it not i Oh, yes. As you will See. 
 
LESSON XXXVI. 
 
 State 
 High 
 Wall 
 
 Keeps 
 
 Out 
 
 Goods 
 
 Lets 
 
 In 
 
 Men 
 
 What is this ? It is a High Wall. It is 
 built by the Wise State all round the Bounds 
 of the Land to Keep Out Cheap Goods that 
 Foes might want to Send in. But if the Wall 
 keeps out Cheap Goods, the like Goods our 
 own Men make will be Dear, will they not ? Yes, 
 they May, but you see we will Keep our Cash 
 in our own Land, so we can Buy even if they 
 are Dear. And more, they will not be Dear 
 long, for lots of Works will be set up, and the 
 Price will soon Fall to a Fair Rate. And poor 
 Toil will soon get Rich, will he not? So they 
 Say. But see! there is a Hole in the Wall, 
 and All who Please may come in to Beat down 
 Toil in his Wage. Toil must buy Dear Goods, 
 but Work for a Cheap Wage. That is what 
 it Means, but Toil Votes for the Wall! 
 
 40 
 
FEB 18 li .^ 
 
 LESSON xxxsm^ 
 
 Tj^Zr^^ 
 
 ,*■-'• 
 
 Pools 
 
 And 
 
 Trusts 
 
 Their 
 Long: 
 Heads 
 
 Dupes 
 
 Get 
 
 Left 
 
 But do you See these Men all Bound by 
 a Rope? Yes, I see them. Did the State Tie 
 them this way? No, they did it out of their 
 own Long Heads. It is what they call a Pool 
 or a Trust. You see, when a Lot of Works 
 start up in a Land that has a Wall round it, 
 and they all make Goods of the Same Kind, 
 the Land is soon Full and Down goes the Price. 
 So they all go in to a Trust. They Join Hand 
 in Hand as it were, and Put Down the Wage 
 of Those who Work for them, and cut off the 
 Flew of Goods, and keep up the Price. It is 
 a \jrreat Scheme, is it not? It is. And that is 
 where poor Toil and his Mates are made Dupes 
 and get Left, though they Vote to Build the 
 Wall. Toil and his Like are Geese that the 
 Men with Long Heads pluck. 
 
 41 
 
 // 
 
LESSON XXXVIII. 
 
 Too 
 
 Such 
 
 Yet 
 
 Much 
 
 Bad 
 
 Folks 
 
 Goods 
 
 Fix 
 
 Starve 
 
 This Man has a Great Store of Goods, has 
 lie not? Yes, far More than he Likes to have. 
 He is one of the Trust Men, and he would like 
 to Sell his Goods, but can not do so, for the 
 Land is Full. Then why does he not Send 
 them off in boats to Strange Lands and Sell 
 them? He would be Glad to do so, but he 
 can Not, They are too Dear, as the Things 
 they are made of have to Pay a High Tax to 
 Pass in through the Wall. And then, if he Sold 
 them in a far Land, he would have to take 
 Goods of that Land for his Pay, and then when 
 he brought those Goods home he would have 
 to pay a High Tax on them. So you see he 
 is in a Bad Fix. And wliile he Weeps that he 
 has all these Goods piled up which he can not 
 Sell, the Poor cry out for such Goods but can 
 not Buy them, and are like-ly to Starve. 
 
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LESSON XXXIX. 
 
 Soup 
 
 But 
 
 Right 
 
 Is 
 
 We 
 
 To 
 
 Good 
 
 Want 
 
 Work 
 
 "The Poor ye have With You all the 
 Time," said the Lord, and Some seem to Think 
 it would not be Right to fix our Laws so 
 that no Man need Beg who is fit to Work 
 and Wills to do so. And so those who Think 
 this will lend no Hand to Mend the state of 
 Things which we now have, by which some 
 grow Rich who Toil not nor Spin, and some 
 are like to Die though they would Fain get 
 Work to do. But such folks have Kind 
 Hearts, of course, and they do not Fail to give 
 Alms to the Poor, so that they may be Kept 
 in Life. They will give of their Means that 
 the Poor may have Soup, and they will send 
 them Coal when it is cold. This is all Well, 
 but it Falls Short. Let the Law be Just. We 
 do not ask a Dole, say the Poor ; we ask, as a 
 Right, that we may Work, and to that end may 
 go on to the Land ^vhich God made for All Men. 
 
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LESSON XL. 
 
 Pull So Make 
 
 Down Far Rents 
 
 Wall Good High 
 
 See these Men. They Smash the Wall ! 
 That is Well. They know that Alms will not 
 Cure the Case of the Poor if kept up to the end 
 of Time, but will in fact make Bad Worse. So 
 these Men say, We must make the Law more 
 Just to All. But they do not Mean the Land 
 Law; they are quite in the Dark as to the 
 True Cause of the 111. They say, Let us have 
 Free Trade. We must not Tax all for the sole 
 Good of the Few. Let us have Free Trade — 
 that will make things Hum. So they go to 
 Work to tear down the Wall that was built 
 to keep out cheap Goods. This is all right. 
 But when it is Done, and great Crowds pour 
 in, and things do " Hum," it will just put up 
 the Rent of Land, which goes to the Purse of 
 the Land Lord, and in the End things will be 
 just in the Same State with those who Work. 
 
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LESSON XLI. 
 
 John 
 
 liongr 
 
 Yet 
 
 Bull 
 
 Tom 
 
 Has 
 
 Wall 
 
 DoTvn 
 
 Poor 
 
 Who is this ? This is the Old Gent who 
 rules half the World. His name is John Bull, 
 and he is a Fine Old Boy. He tore down his 
 Wall long ago, and Things did Hum with 
 him for a Time, there is No Doubt of that. 
 He took the Lead of all the Earth in Trade, 
 and he Holds it Yet. But what of his Poor? 
 Why, he still has Poor in the Slums, and 
 Things grow Worse each Year with them. But 
 he has Some far more Rich, too, than he used 
 to have — some who have Gold they can not 
 Count. Why is this? It is the same Old Song 
 — the same Sad Truth. A Few Men own John 
 Bull's Land, and the Rest have to Pay them 
 for the Boon of Life. So you see from this 
 that to Tear down the Wall is not All that 
 must be Done to put an End to the Bad 
 State of Things we speak of. 
 
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LESSON XLII. 
 
 John 
 
 And 
 
 Sam 
 
 Both 
 Have 
 Poor 
 
 y 
 
 In 
 
 Same 
 
 Boat 
 
 See the Boat and the Two Men in it! 
 They are in the Same Boat, are they not? 
 Yes, such is the Case. One is John Bull, and 
 one is Sam. They speak the same Tongue and 
 are Good Friends, I am glad to Tell you. But 
 they Both find the same Sad State of Things 
 all Kound them, though John has an Old Small 
 Land, and Sam has a New Wide one. They 
 see the Kich and the Poor side by side. Trade 
 Dull, Men out of Work, Some that Die for 
 lack Qf Food, and Some that go on Tramp, 
 while the Bich give Balls, and Drink Wine, 
 and Feast, and have so much Gold that they 
 know nf)t what to Do with it. What is the 
 Cause? The Same in each Case. A few Men 
 own the Land, and take Toll of all the Rest. 
 Is this not Plain? It is. And yet these two 
 Wise Men do not seem to See it. 
 
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LESSON XLIII. 
 
 Sam John Both 
 
 Cute Hard Mere 
 
 Chap Head Dupes 
 
 See the Fat Man take a ride on a Team! 
 Yes. Sam may be a Cute, Sharp Chap, as no 
 doubt he is, and John has a Hard Head, as we 
 all know — but it is Plain that both are Blind 
 to the Fact that they are the Dupes of the 
 Law by which Land is held as if it were a 
 Thing men might ** Own." The Land Lord 
 rides on the Backs of Both thest^ smart Men, 
 and they will not be Free to Stand up Straight, 
 and Breathe with Ease till they have Thrown 
 him Off. If just ONE Man held the Land of 
 John Bull, and but One held that of Sam, the 
 Thing would be Plain. But as there are quite 
 a Few who take the Fund which ought to go 
 to the State, they do not See it. And they 
 still cry out, "How Is it that we can not 
 Stand up Straight?" The One-Tax plan would 
 make the Land Lord get off and go to Work 
 like the Rest of us. 
 
 47 
 
LESSON XLIV. 
 
 Fat 
 
 Owns 
 
 State 
 
 Man 
 
 Things 
 
 Should 
 
 Rich 
 
 Which 
 
 Hold 
 
 My Child, to make the Point Clear, let us 
 just take all the Rich men of the Land and 
 roll them in to One big Fat Man; and then 
 Take all the Poor and put them in One Gaunt, 
 Thin Wretch. Here we have the Fact as it is 
 this Day. You say, if Men are Good, and if they 
 have Care and Thrift and do not Diink, they 
 may Get On. Yes, that is True. But Both 
 these Men you see here are the Same on those 
 Points, and yet One has more Gold than he 
 can Use or Count, and One is in Want of a 
 Meal. Did the Rich Man Earn this Gold? 
 No; it came from Land Rent, or from the 
 Fact that he Owns Things which Ought to be 
 Held by the State for the Use of All, or that 
 the Law gives him a Chance to get More for 
 his Goods than he could get if there was Free 
 Trade. 
 
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LESSON XLV. 
 
 Cows 
 
 Near 
 
 Barb 
 
 Must 
 
 • 
 
 To 
 
 Wire 
 
 Stai-ve 
 
 Grass 
 
 Fcnc< 
 
 Do you See all these Cows? Yes, I See 
 the Cows. See how their Eyes Stick Out. 
 They want Grass to Eat, and there is a great 
 Field of Grass close by. Why do not the 
 Cows go and Eat the Grass ? Ah ! why not ? 
 You may not see that Barb- Wire Fence, but 
 the Cows see it, and feel its Barbs. That is 
 Why they Starve in sight of Grass. That 
 Fence is just like the Law that keeps Men 
 from the Land. No Man would Starve if he 
 could get to the Land to Work. But the Land 
 is not Free. It is Held, and you must Buy it 
 or pay Rent for it, or you can not Have the 
 Use of it. If you can not Pay you are then 
 in the same Case as the Cows here, and must 
 Starve, if some Kind Man does not come and 
 Give you Food as an Alms. 
 
 49 
 
LAND 
 
 ^LiiL 
 
 LESSON XLVI. 
 
 Rod 
 
 Drink 
 
 Man 
 
 Strike 
 
 For 
 
 Owns 
 
 Kock 
 
 All 
 
 Land 
 
 You Know how God came to the Help of 
 the Tribes He led out of the Dark Land. At 
 one Place, the Good Book tells us, He sent 
 them Food which fell on the Ground, and each 
 Man was Free to pick up a Share. If some 
 Man had Held that Land on a Deed, that 
 Food would have been His, and All would 
 have had to Pay him for it. And you have 
 Read how, when the Tribe was in need of 
 Drink, God told the Head Man to Strike the 
 Rock with his Rod, and when he did so a 
 Stream burst forth for the Use of All. Just 
 so is it Now. God gives us the Land, and if 
 we Strike the Land with the Rod of Toil, a 
 Stream of Wealth will come Forth. This God 
 means Each One of us to Use for his own 
 Life. But if the Rock in that Old Time had 
 been Held by some Big Man, he would have 
 made them Pay him for the Drinks. 
 
 50 
 

 
 LESSON XLVII. 
 
 Men 
 
 Land 
 
 No 
 
 Want 
 
 ' Needs 
 
 More 
 
 Work 
 
 Plow 
 
 AlU18 
 
 The good Man who was at the Head of a 
 Town in the West saw a great lot of Men 
 who had no Work and were so Poor they had 
 to Live on Alms. At the same time he saw a 
 Great Deal of Land near by that was not in 
 Use. So he got Leave of Those who Held the 
 Deeds of the Land to let some of the Poor 
 Use it, and then he Gave them Spuds and set 
 them to Work. You ask, How did it Turn 
 out ? Why, each of the Men who got the Use 
 of a Lot got so much of a Crop for his Toil 
 that he had no Need to ask for Aid from the 
 Town. Give Toil the Use of Land and that is 
 all you need Do. But did not the Land Lords 
 help \ Oh, yes. Much ! They Got Out of the 
 Way. The One-Tax Plan would make Land 
 Free to Toil. 
 
 61 
 

 
 LESSON XLVIIL 
 
 Work Steam Wild 
 
 The All Men 
 
 Thiiigr Wrong Wise 
 
 What have we Here ? Are these Wild 
 Men? They Look like it, do they not? They 
 were once Men who had come up to a High 
 State of Life, up to the Point where We are 
 now in this good Age and Land. But they 
 found that Things got in to such a Fix some 
 how that there was not Bread for All, and 
 Work could not be Found for those who were 
 Out of Work. Then thev saw what a Bad 
 Thing Steam was, and all the Means that were 
 used in Mills, and so forth, to save Toil; so 
 they went to Work and broke up all the Belts 
 and Wheels so that all Work must be done 
 by Hand. And in this way, by Force of the 
 Truth they now Saw, they were led Back, step 
 by step, to the State in which Man was in 
 what we call the Dark Age; in Short, they 
 were once more Wild Men of the Woods. 
 
 52 
 
LESSON XLIX. 
 
 Wealth What Steam 
 
 Not Men Good 
 
 Work Want Thing 
 
 But is it not a bad Thing to Rob Men of 
 Work, as is now Done in Mills wliere Goods 
 are not Made by Hand but by Steam, and 
 where a Loom with two Men can do the Work 
 it took a Score of Men to do some Time ago? 
 If Work is the Thing Man wants, then this is 
 Bad. But Man does not want Work for its 
 own Sake. He will do Work, and do it with 
 a Will, but it is for the Sake of That it gets 
 for him. It is a Means to an End, and that 
 End is Wealth, or the Things which meet his 
 Needs. If he could get these Things Free he 
 would not ask for Work. And if by Steam 
 such Things can be made with Ease, and more 
 of them for the same Toil, it ought to be a 
 Good Thing for all Men. Why, then, does it 
 not Bless and Aid all? The Cause is that 
 Some by Law get More than a Fair Share, 
 and so Some must get Less. 
 
 68 
 
j|l,IIII.M,.ll.] ■iJlll.l.'IIITnTTT 
 
 LESSON L. 
 
 Lots 
 
 Yet 
 
 For 
 
 Of 
 
 Too 
 
 The 
 
 Boom 
 
 Small 
 
 Crowd 
 
 What is This ? It is a Map. It is a Land 
 they call the States. A few Yeai's back it 
 Held no folks too Poor and none too Rich. 
 All were Well to do. This was in the Day 
 when the West was New, and men Fled to it 
 from the Old World. The Land was Big and 
 Wide and Fit to Hold all Men on Earth if 
 they Came, and give them Food, Clothes and 
 Homes. Now, though the Land is just as Big 
 as it was then, this is not the Case. Though 
 it is far from Full, yet it has too much of a 
 Crowd, and one Class is in the Slums, while a 
 few are so Rich that Kings might well Stare 
 at them. How is this ? Has the Land Shrunk ? 
 Yes, you might Put it that Way. There is no 
 Free Land to be had where a Man could Live. 
 The Land Lord now Owns it All. That is the 
 Whole Tale in One Word. 
 
 54 
 
LESSON LJ. 
 
 Same Through Land 
 
 Old The Lord 
 
 Songr World Cause 
 
 . It is the Same in all the Lands on Earth 
 as in the Map we have seen. Some Few Own 
 ihri Land, and the Crowd is Shut Out. But 
 would it Cure this to pay Land Rent to the 
 State in a Tax? Is this not the Same Thing as 
 to pay it to a Land Lord ? Is it not the Same 
 Sum, that is, the Worth of the Bare Land each 
 year? Yes, my Child, it is the Same Sum, but 
 by No Means the Same Thing. For, see, Look 
 at the Cut on this Page. That Shows you 
 Where the Odds come in. When you have 
 paid Land Rent to a Land Lord, you still 
 have Rates to pay to keep up the State. The 
 Land Lord has no Power to set you Free of 
 These. But if you pay Land Rent to the 
 State, that is your One Tax. You pay No 
 More, and you have a Right to Keep all you 
 Earn, as there would Now be no Tax on Toil. 
 
 65 
 
LESSON LII. 
 
 If 
 
 All 
 Men 
 
 / 
 
 The 
 Earth 
 
 Hand 
 
 Shares 
 
 Round 
 
 You see this Man and what he is At? 
 Yes. He has a Knife and it is his Aim to Cut 
 up the Earth so as to give Each Man his Share. 
 He is a Crank, is he not? That is Just what 
 he Is. And yet you Tell me all the While that 
 all Men have a Right to the Land. If so, is it 
 not a Wise thing to Cut it up and Share it 
 Round? My Child, the Thing could not be 
 Done, and if it were Done it would not Stay 
 Done for more than a Week. If the Man cut 
 up the Earth in to Squares, and gave each Man 
 in the World a Square, it would not then be 
 Right, for all the Squares would not be of the 
 Same Worth, and so all Men would not be on 
 the Same Plane. And yet I do tell you Once 
 More that, though the World can not be Cut 
 up in to Just, E-qual Squares, yet all Men have 
 the same Right to Own the Earth. 
 
 56 
 
LESSON LIII. 
 
 Men 
 Own 
 Horse 
 
 Share 
 Beast 
 Round 
 
 But 
 
 Don»t 
 
 Say 
 
 Here is a Horse, and the Three Men you 
 see own him, each One Third. Now, they do 
 not Cut up the Horse so Each may get his 
 Share, do they? No, nor do they Wish to do 
 so. They let the Fourth man Use the Horse 
 and he Pays Hire for such Use. The Sum of 
 the Hire goes in to the Till each Year, and it 
 is not Hard to See how they can make Three 
 Shares of it. So you see in this Way they All 
 cjet their Rights, and it is just the same as if 
 they Cut up the Horse. So with the Land. If 
 those who Hold and Use Land pay the Rent 
 or Hire of it to the Till of the State, and this 
 Fund is used for the Good of All, is not that 
 the Same Thing as if all Men had a Share of 
 the Land? Sure! This is what would be 
 Done by the One-Tax plan. It is Plain as the 
 Nose on your Face. 
 
 67 
 
Ail. 
 
 LESSON LIV. 
 
 One 
 
 Plain 
 
 Work 
 
 Tax 
 
 Slick 
 
 Like 
 
 Plan 
 
 Just 
 
 Charm 
 
 But you Ask me, my Child, if it would 
 not be a Hard thing to put this One-Tax plan 
 at Work. No; it would not be Hard. We 
 would just have to Wipe out each Tax we now 
 have, and in its Place put the One Tax on 
 Ground Kent — the Sum each Year that each 
 Piece of Land, as Bare Land, is Worth. There 
 would be far less Toil to do this than to do 
 what we now (try to) do. There would be no 
 Need to Pry and Sneak as by the Plan now 
 in Vogue, nor would there be so much need of 
 Lies as now. We just put the Till of the State 
 be-low the Land Lord's Hat, which Holds the 
 Ground Rent, and then we make a Rent of a 
 New Kind in the Crown of the Hat, and There 
 You Are. The Fund now goes not to Him, 
 but to Those who Made it; to wit, the Folks 
 who make up the State. It would work like 
 a Charm, my Child. 
 
LESSON LV. 
 
 Land 
 Rent 
 Comes 
 
 Free 
 And 
 Full 
 
 Tax 
 
 Nought 
 Else 
 
 But if there is but One Tax on Land Kent, 
 will not Those who Use no Land go Free of 
 Tax? And do you Think it is a Fair Shake 
 to let Some who may be Rich go Free, while 
 you Tax their Mates, who may not be so Well 
 Off? Well, my Dear, I do not see how any 
 Man can g«t on if he does not Use some Land 
 in some way. The Man in the Cut says he will 
 not Pay — but you see he can Fly. I hold that 
 we do no Wrong when we put the Tax on one 
 Thing, and say all who use this Thing shall 
 pay. If some do not have to Pay, it must be 
 that they do not Use the Thing, and Those who 
 do Use it do so for this Cause, that it Pays 
 them to Use it. They make no Wry Face now 
 when they have to pay a Land Lord for the 
 Use of Land ; why should they Howl when they 
 are Told to pay the same Sum to the State ? 
 
LESSON LVI. 
 
 Why 
 
 Tax 
 
 Toil 
 
 When 
 
 Land 
 
 Rent 
 
 Pays 
 
 All 
 
 Costs 
 
 And now I ask you one Thing, my Child. 
 If by the Tax on Land Rent we just take the 
 Fund which is made by All, and if we Find 
 that Fund to be Quite as Large as the State 
 needs for All its Ends, why should you Want to 
 have a Tax puf^ on any thing Else? Why do 
 you want to Rob a Rich Man of what he 
 Earns in a Fair way more than if he were a 
 Poor Man? Is a Tax jmt on for Spite? Now, 
 if an An-gel from the Sky came down each 
 Year and gave our State a Till full of Gold, 
 Free of Charge, would you not Say the State 
 should then set us all Free of all the Tax we 
 have now to Bear ? Of course ! Well, my 
 Child, the Fund we call Land Rent comes to 
 us as Free as if it were sent from the Sky 
 each year. No Man has to Work to Make it. 
 It comes from the mere Fact of the Crowd. 
 
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LESSON LVII. 
 
 Fat 
 
 Rich 
 
 3Ieii 
 
 Get 
 
 Their 
 
 Wealth 
 
 Through 
 
 Bad 
 
 Laws 
 
 See the Fat Men in the Cut. They Toil 
 not nor do they Spin. And yet they are Rich. 
 Rich is no Name for it. What are they at 
 here? They are at Work. This is all the 
 Work they do — just Hold out their Hats for 
 Gold. See the Pipes that pour out the Gold. 
 The Fat Men own the Pipes, and the Pipes 
 Tap the Wealth that is made by the Toil of 
 the Mass of Men. One Branch of the One-Tax 
 plan is to Tax Land Rent and Nought Elst», 
 and the next Branch is to have the State take 
 Charge of these Pipes which should be held by 
 the State for all. If that were done We should 
 have no Men in this World quite so Fat as we 
 now See. Each Man would have to get Fat on 
 his own Work, and All would have more Joy 
 in Life. 
 
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LESSON LVIIL 
 
 Kick Laws Stop 
 
 And Made Their 
 
 Howl Right Game 
 
 See how the Rich Men Kick and Howl 
 now. Why do they Kick? Do you not see 
 that a Stop has been put to the Flow of Gold 
 in to their Hats ? How has this been Done ? By 
 the new Plan we call the One-Tax. The Land 
 Kent which they have Kept up to this Time? 
 now has to be Paid in to the Till of the State 
 as a Tax. And as for Pipe Two, as shown in 
 last Cut, that is now Held ')y the State, as it 
 Taps Lines of Trade in which there is not a 
 Free Field for All. It is Right that such Lines 
 of Trade should be in the Hands of the State, 
 and that is a part of the One-Tax plan, as I 
 have told you. What will the Rich Men do 
 Now? Well, if they want More Wealth, they 
 will have to Work for it. But in days to 
 Come, with the One-Tax plan in Vogue, We 
 will have no more Men who get Rich in the 
 Way they got their Gold. 
 
LESSON LIX. 
 
 Would Coal Muke 
 
 Soon King's Fuel 
 
 Stop Scheme Cheap 
 
 Do you See these two Men ? One is Poor 
 and out of Work, though when he does Work 
 he gets but a few Cents per day. He digs Coal 
 in a Mine, The Fat Man and a few of his 
 Chums own the Mine. And Month by Month 
 they meet and lay down the Law as to How 
 Much Coal shall be Dug, and what the Price 
 shall be. Thus are they like Kings in a Land 
 which we call Free. How will the One-Tax 
 plan set this Eight? Well, you see, the Coal 
 Land they hold now bears but a Light Tax as 
 Wild Land. By the One-Tax plan it will have 
 to bear a Tax at its full Worth as Coal Land, 
 and can not be Held out of Use as it now is. 
 These Coal Kings must then Keep their Mines 
 at Work All the Time, so as to make them 
 Pay More than the Tax, or let them go, and so 
 Set the Land Free that those who Wish may 
 Dig Coal. 
 
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LESSON LX. 
 
 Not 
 
 Take 
 
 liiind 
 
 But 
 
 Just 
 
 Kent 
 
 That 
 All 
 
 Here is a Sign Post such as you See now 
 when you take a Walk in the Town. What 
 does it Mean ? It Means that some Man Holds 
 the Land, not for Use, but to make Gain in 
 Case some one Else wants to Use it. He will 
 get this Gain in the form of Rent or Price, 
 while the Man who Takes it Works — thus he 
 Lives on the Sweat of that Man's Brow. Does 
 tne One-Tax plan Mean to take this Lot from 
 the Man who now Holds it? Not at all. The 
 Lot will have to Pay a tax — just the Sum the, 
 Man would now Kent it to this Chap for. If 
 he pays that Tax he can still Hold it and keep . 
 it Bare. If he does not Need it for Use, he 
 will Drop it, and let the Man who does Need it 
 take it and pay the Tax. You see it is Land 
 Rent and not Land the State will take from 
 those who now Hold it. 
 
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LESSON l.XI. 
 
 Plain 
 
 Does 
 
 Wastes 
 
 Good 
 
 Not 
 
 His 
 
 Man 
 
 Know 
 
 Tears 
 
 Who is this Man, and why does he Weep? 
 He is a Plain, Good Man, who Works at a 
 Trade, and has by Years of Toil got a Nice 
 wee Home all paid for. And he sheds Tears 
 now at the Thought of the One-Tax plan 
 which will Rob him of the Land he Owns, and 
 do him much Harm. Poor Chap ! He Means 
 well, but he does not Know. He will by no 
 means be Hurt, as he Thinks. In the First 
 place, his Bit of Land will have to pay a Tax 
 as bare Land, and as it is not Large, nor in a 
 Fine part of the Town, that Tax will not be 
 a Great one. But that One Tax will be All. 
 His House will be Free, and all the Goods he 
 has; and he may Build and Paint and Mend 
 things all he Likes, and there will be no more 
 Tax, nor will there be any Tax on what he 
 Wears, or Eats, or Earns. 
 
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LESSON LXll. 
 
 Stop Lay Make 
 
 Drink Down Things 
 
 Curse Arms Worse 
 
 Here is a Man with a Gun; he is in the 
 Troop. And next to him is a Man who 
 Drinks ; and next is a Jail Bird, and next is a 
 Sick Man. Each of These is just one of a 
 great Crowd of his Class. It is the Aim of 
 Good Men to have Peace on Earth, so that no 
 Men need to Fight; and to stop Gin Mills and 
 all their Ills^ and to make all men Good so 
 there need be no Jails, and to Heal all the Sick 
 on Earth. This is a good Work, is it not? 
 But if so much of the Earth has a Barb Wire 
 Fence round it, and is Held by those who Own 
 it ; and if the World is now so Small that there 
 is not Work for All who now ask for Work, 
 would it not make things a deal Worse if Good 
 Men could Reach the Aim they are at, Break 
 up the Jails, Heal the Sick, Stop the Drink, 
 and so on? Would it not Add new Crowds 
 to the Out of Works ? 
 
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LESSON LXIII. ' 
 
 Land Still Can't 
 
 Lord On Down 
 
 Stays Top Him 
 
 What does this Cut Mean ? It Means that 
 the Land Lord is on Top all the While, and 
 it is True. He is just like a Cork that Floats 
 on a Stream. If the Tide comes in and the ^ 
 Stream gets High, Up goes the Cork. It is 
 still on Top, and you can not Down it. Just 
 so, if we had Free Trade in this Land or if 
 we shut out the Drink that does so much 
 Harm, and if Thus we made the Land bloom 
 with new Life, what would it Do? It would 
 bring more Folks, and the Town would Grow. 
 We would have more Works, and more Hands, 
 and 80 Goods would go Down in Price, V)ut 
 the New Crowds would need Land to Stand 
 on, and have Homes on, and as we can not 
 Make more Land than there now is, Up, Up, 
 Up would go its Worth — the Rent for the 
 Purse of the Land Lord. 
 
LESSON LXIV. 
 
 Fine 
 
 Free 
 
 Land 
 
 Bright 
 
 Street 
 
 Rents 
 
 Town 
 
 Cars 
 
 Rise 
 
 It would be a Fine, Bright Town that 
 would have Free Street Cars, would it not? 
 No Town yet has such a Snap as that. But if 
 ^it had, and Fine Parks as well, and all Things 
 that Heart could Wish for, who would Gain 
 Most by it ? The Men who own the Land, to 
 be sure. It would be Worth more to Live in 
 such a Place, would it not ? And Folks would 
 Flock in, would they not ? Yes ; and when 
 they Got there, the Chaps who Own the Land 
 of the Town would just put up the Rent of 
 the Land so as to make the Cost of Life in 
 that Town as High as in Towns where they 
 have to Pay to Ride in Street Cars, and have 
 Few or None of the Good things I speak of. 
 The Land Lord owns the Toll Gate, my Child, 
 as you see, and he does not Fail to get his 
 Toll, Rain or Shine. 
 
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LESSON LXV. 
 
 Squid 
 
 Eats 
 
 Men 
 
 One 
 Tax 
 Plan 
 
 Spear 
 
 That 
 
 Kills 
 
 Have no Fear, my Child: it can not Get 
 Out to Eat you. It is a Thing of Vile Shape, 
 is it not? What is it? It is what they call 
 a Squid. It lives in the Sea, and Eats Men if 
 it gets hold of them. It lives on Land, too. 
 And here you see Men caught in its great 
 Arms. There are Words on the Arms to tell 
 )ou vrhat they Mean. Men may Kill Squids 
 in the Sea with Spears, but on Land the thing 
 to Kill them is the One-Tax plan, which will 
 Cut off the Land Arm by a Tax on Kent and 
 will Cut off the liest by a Law which will 
 give All these Lines of Trade in to the Hands 
 of the State, to be Used and Held for All. 
 When that is Done the Squid will do no 
 more Harm; and there need be no more Vile 
 Slums, but all may have a Chance to Live a 
 Clean Life in this World. 
 
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LESSON LXVI. 
 
 With 
 
 Greed 
 
 Gold 
 
 Bad 
 
 Won't 
 
 Rule 
 
 Laws 
 
 Let 
 
 Work 
 
 "Do to Men as you would have them Do 
 to You." This is what we call the Rule of 
 Gold. It is Grand and Good, is it not? Men 
 would like to Act on it, too, but they Do not. 
 Why ? They Dare not. They say it is a Fine 
 Rule but it will not Work in our Day, for Biz 
 is Biz. You see, the Cause is this : Each Man 
 now Feels that his Feet are not in a Sure 
 Place. He has Want, or the Fear of Want in 
 front of Him or, so to speak, He has all he can 
 do to Keep the Wolf from his Door. He says, 
 " I must be Just to ray Own, and so I can not 
 be Kind to All. Who knows but I may Lose 
 what I have ? If so, I will need Work to 
 Earn more, and who Knows that I can get 
 Work ? No : I must show Greed like the Rest 
 of Men and get all I can by Fair means or 
 Foul." The Rule of Gold is Good, but it will 
 not Work in this state of Things. 
 
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LESSON LXVII. 
 
 Take 
 
 Make 
 
 Then 
 
 First 
 
 Land 
 
 Go 
 
 Step 
 
 Free 
 
 On 
 
 Oh, see the Great Head, and what a Lot of 
 Limbs ! What does this Mean ? This is the 
 State as Some Good Men think it Ought to Be. 
 They would fix Things so that the Few could 
 not Hold Land for Spec. In This they are at 
 One with Us. But they Go On to Say that 
 the Tools of Trade, all the Mills, and Works, 
 and Shops, must be Held by the State as Well 
 as the Land, or Things will not be quite Right. 
 As it is now, they Point out, there is a vast 
 Waste of Toil and Wealth, while those who do 
 most Work are the Ones who Starve. This 
 may be True, my Child, but let us Take 
 the First step First. When we have Made the 
 Land Free, and have put the Rail Roads and 
 such Things in to the Hands of the State, we 
 will have Time to Talk of this Next Step. 
 
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LESSON LXVIII. 
 
 How Plan Made 
 
 One Would Quite 
 
 Tax Work Plain 
 
 Now, my Child, we come near to the End 
 of the Book. I hope you see through the Plan 
 of the One Tax and How it would Work. Yes, 
 I Think I Do. The State would take All the 
 Land and Rent it Out. Is not that it? No; 
 You are quite Wrong. The State would Leave 
 the Land with Those who now Own it. It 
 would just tax the Land at its Right Worth, 
 and Each Man who Held it would get a Tax 
 Bill for that Sum each year, to wit, the Sum 
 of the Rent of the Bare Land, and there 
 would be but this One Tax to pay. From the 
 Whole of the Funds thus Got, a Paii; would 
 go to Meet the Needs of the State. There 
 would still be a Good Sum Left, and this 
 would go Back to the Folks at Large in the 
 form of Good Roads, Lights, Parks, and so on. 
 Get this Clear in your Ht^ad, my Child. 
 
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LESSON LXIX. 
 
 Hard Who Just 
 
 On Holds For 
 
 Chap Land Spec. 
 
 Now I see what you Mean. But, Pray 
 tell me, would it not be Hard on the Man 
 who bought Land and Paid for it, to put tlie 
 One-Tax Plan at Work and Knock out the 
 Spec, there is now in Land? He paid for it 
 in Good Cash, but if he can not Sell it or 
 Kent it for More than he Gave, will he not 
 Lose the Gain he meant to Make? He will, 
 my Chikl ; but God made Land for Use, and 
 the Man who Lives on Land Rent is of no more 
 Use than the Worm that eats our Vines. The 
 State has a Right to Tax what it Likes, and 
 so it can Tax Land Rent. We may Weep for 
 the Poor Chaps who thus get Hurt, but what 
 of Those who are Hurt in the same way by 
 the Tax we now put on Things in which they 
 Deal? There is the Man who has Built a 
 House for Gain. Do we not Hurt him the 
 same way when we Tax a House? 
 
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LESSON LXX. 
 
 See Now And 
 
 The Go Spread 
 
 Cat ? Forth Light 
 
 Now, to }>ring the Book to a Close, I ask 
 you, my Child, Do you see the Cat ? By this 
 I Mean do you see Through the One-Tax Plan, 
 and grasp the Thought that it would in Truth 
 make men Free ? That Thought is like the 
 Trick which you have seen in a Print on a 
 Card, as in this Cut, It is a lot of Trees, and 
 you are tud to Find the C*. At First you 
 can see no Shape of a G 1, but at last you 
 Find it and it is then so Plain you see it with 
 Ease. So when you once see the One-Tax Plan 
 it will Grow on you in the same Way. The 
 Cat is in the Grove at the Top of this Page. 
 And in the square space you read these Words, 
 " A tax on Land Rent will make us Free." 
 I have Shown you how it will Do this, my 
 Child, and now I bid you Good- By. Go Thou 
 and Spread the Light. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
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RESTITUTION. 
 
 Enough ! the lie is euded ; God only owns the laud ; 
 Ko parchment deed hath virtue unsigned by His own hand; 
 Out on the bold blasphemers who would eject the Lord, 
 And pauperize his children, and trample on His ^^ ord ! 
 
 Behold this glorious temple, with dome of starry sky. 
 And floor of greensward scented, and trees for pillars high. 
 And song of birds for music, and bleat of lambs for prayer, 
 And incense of sweet vapors uprisiug everywhere! 
 
 Behold His table bounteous, sprea'^! over land and sea. 
 The sure reward of labor, to every mortal free ; 
 And hark! through Nature's anthem there rises the refrain: 
 "God owns the Earth, but giveth it unto the Sous of men." 
 
 But see, within the temple, as in Solomon's of old, 
 The money-changers haggle, and souls are bought and sold; 
 And that is called an owner^s which can only be the Lord's, 
 And Christ is not remembered, nor His whip of knotted cords. 
 
 But Christ has not forgotten, and wolfish human greed 
 
 Shall be driven from our heritage ; God's bounties shall be freed ; 
 
 And from out our hoary statutes shall be torn the crime-stained 
 
 leaves 
 "Which have turned the world, God's temple, into a den of thieves ! 
 
 J. W. Bengouqh. 
 
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